Post #23.
If you were a theater geek in the late 70’s and early 80’s, hoo boy was he ever hot in All That Jazz. No wonder we all wanted a womanizing bastard of a director/choreographer! 
Gimme an unrepentant bad boy any day!
Loved that film- music, ugly people humping, bad fashion, worse hair & make-up, and heavy drug use!
“What’s wrong? Don’t you like musical comedy?”
I don’t have a cite, but last I’d read, “community acquired” (vs. “hospital acquired”) staph infections were becoming far more frequent.
As for legal action, you’d probably have to show the hospital could have prevented it. There are lots of ways for visitors, other patients, etc., to pick up and spread staph in a hospital without the personnel having any interaction with it.
Back to the main topic - RIP Mr. Scheider.
Joe Gideon got what he wanted, at last.
I’ll remember him in 2010, scared shitless and comforting a cosmonaut with nothing to do during Jupiter insertion…
Oh, yeah. Nothing glitzy, just tough hard-core 70s cops and criminals.
52 Pickup wasn’t a great movie, but Scheider carried his role with conviction, especially with lines like “Something about your face just makes me want to slap the shit out of it.”
IIRC, he’d been undergoing treatment for various cancers (“multiple myeloma”) for some time now. So his immune system was quite possibly compromised to the point where it couldn’t fight off a garden-variety bug, much less staph.
And re the main topic: “show’s over, folks.” RIP indeed.
I don’t have a definitive source, but it’s been reported in various obituaries online. I’m trying to go with better sources than Wikipedia.
FWIW, however, imdb says Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, and John Travolta were also considered for the role. Stallone may have been the impetus behind getting the movie produced, but many films go through a preliminary process where other actors are interviewed before the final choice is made.
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There is no small irony that a guy named cochrane is posting to this thread, either.
Cochrane is the name of the bad guy (played by Malcolm McDowell) in Blue Thunder
Hee, hee. Yeah, I noticed that. I took my screen name from the Star Trek character Zefram Cochrane, however. Nice coincidence, though.
A bump, because NPR’s Fresh Aire just did a piece on Chicago 10, a documentary, in which Scheider provides the voice of the judge in the case. The story sounds fascinating, and when they play a clip of the film with Scheider speaking, then a clip of the court room trial with the judge speaking, it’s amazing (at least to my ears) how closely he captured the strangeness of the judge’s voice.
One thing that I thought when I heard the piece is that it is not something I’d naturally associate Scheider with, then I remember that when he heard they were going to be making a movie of Naked Lunch, he called up Cronenberg and said, “I have to play Benway! I am Benway!” (This is before the script had ever been written, BTW.) So, I have to wonder what was up with ol’ Roy? He certainly didn’t have any public scandals that I can recall, and the Dopers who’ve met him speak kindly of him.
Another interesting casting choice in that movie: with the exception of Helen Mirren, they used actual Soviet actors to play the Soviet crew.